A good friend of The Kick Project,
Jared Genser, founder of the human rights activist group Freedom Now, alerted us to this piece he co-wrote with well-known
Chinese dissident Yang Jianli, in the Wall Street Journal, on the
sometimes fraught relationship between big sporting events and human
rights. It's an issue that's dear to our hearts here, especially
given the plight of migrant workers employed to help construct the
facilities for the Qatar World Cup in 2022 (the same year as the
Beijing Winter Olympics)
It's Important reading. Let's hope it
focusses more attention on the negative impacts of big sport in
relation to human rights and social justice so as to better harness
the many positive outcomes sport can generate.

BEIJING OLYMPIC SCANDAL REDUX

August 7, 2015
Beijing has been selected to host the
2022 Winter Olympics, making it the first city tapped to host both
the Summer and Winter Games. In deciding this, the International
Olympic Committee has chosen to…